Politico is compiling results on the Republican primary candidates who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. With Liz Cheney’s loss on Tuesday night, only two of the 10 brave Republicans who put constitutional over partisan votes will vote in November. The rest either didn’t run or ran and lost. This is no longer your grandfather’s Republican Party.
The Washington Post is great about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to find top-notch lawyers to handle his many and growing legal challenges and the chorus of “no” he gets in return. I have a report. Just imagine: Lawyers are people who care about their reputation enough to say “no” to a former president, but members of Congress? Not so much.
In The New Yorker, the great Jane Mayer examines state legislative redistricting, not just in congressional districts, but in state legislative districts, and how that effort is undermining democracy. increase. She also pushes politics to the extreme, as legislators only have to worry about challenges from their own side. Of all the mistakes the Founding Fathers have made, leaving re-election districts to the political sector is her one of the most damaging.
In The New York Times, Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren rightly complains about the distorted manifestation and forced manifestation of religion in our media culture. she writes:
… When speaking of God primarily in the context of political or ideological controversy, the believer’s actual experience of God, worship, and faith is often lost, not to mention spiritual virtues such as humility, gratitude, and kindness. Gods become mere pawns in culture wars, instruments for political ends, memes for possessing enemies online, or accessories worn like power ties.
And it’s the believers who are often to blame for using God as a pawn in the culture wars. That said, it is ironic that her work appeared on the same day as our Gospel reading, and features Jesus telling his disciples: Even cynics cannot reduce God to their cause.
After all, the old adage “Roma locuta est, causa finite estThe final educational institution for the Catholic Faith appears to be at the Dominican Institute in Washington, DC. Dominican Father Thomas Petri told the Catholic News Agency:Church teachings against contraception are “irremediable”. Humae Vite We can think of any of the many moral teachings that have changed over the years. For example, would Petri invest in the House of Studies endowment? For a while it prohibited the charging of interest.
On Crux, national correspondent John Lavenburg examines the economic crossroads facing the island of Puerto Rico, with comments from religious leaders who are close to their people and see the challenges every day. Note to the Biden Administration: If you want a real success story in fighting climate change, it’s hard to imagine a place with as much potential wind and solar power and an inadequate and outdated power grid as Puerto Rico. .With an investment and loan security, the island Laudato Si’ hemisphere beacon.
Architecture Daily takes a look at some of the approaches to design in the city of Copenhagen, which regularly ranks high on lists of the most livable cities. I’m not a “to-do list” person with a long list of things to do before going to see my Maker. Life has blessed me a lot. Still, I wouldn’t mind going to see this beautiful city that transforms an industrial site into a recreational hub.
